Basic Statistics for Education

Unit: 000 persons

Item 1980 1985 1994 1995 1996 1997
1. Number of schools            
Institutions of higher education 675 1016 1080 1054 1032 1020
Secondary schools 124760 104848 96562 95216 98705 92832
Specialized secondary schools 3069 3557 3987 4049 4099 4143
Regular secondary schools 118377 93221 82358 81020 79967 78642
Primary schools 917316 832309 682588 668685 645983 628840
2. Number of full time teachers (1000 persion)            
Institutions of higher education 247 344 396 401 403 405
Secondary schools 3171 2967 3757 3883 4040 4184
Specialized secondary schools 128 174 247 257 267 276
Regular secondary schools 3020 2652 3234 3334 3465 3584
Primary schools 5499 5377 5611 5664 5736 5794
3. New student enrollment (1000 persion)            
Institutions of higher education 281 619 900 926 966 1000
Secondary schools 20118 17898 21576 23541 24585 25012
Specialized secondary schools 468 668 1225 1381 1523 1621
Regular secondary schools 19343 16069 18598 20259 20429 21282
Primary schools 29423 22982 25370 25318 25247 24620
4. Graduates (1000 persion)            
Institutions of higher education 147 316 637 805 839 829
Secondary schools 16299 12791 15424 16369 17938 19296
Specialized secondary schools 410 429 729 839 1019 1157
Regular secondary schools 15810 11949 13619 14290 14840 16640
Primary schools 20533 19999 18996 19615 19341 19601
5. Student - teacher ratio (person)            
Institutions of higher education 4.6 5 7.1 7.2 7.5 7.8
Secondary schools 17.9 17.2 15.2 15.9 16.4 16.7
Primary schools 26.6 24.9 22.9 23.3 23.7 24.2
6. Government expenditures (billion yuan) 11.42 22.68 101.88 119.38    
Budgetary education expen. 11.42 22.57 93.92 108.1    
Administration expenditures 9.42 18.42 77.28 89.15    
Capital construction investment 1.14 2.72 5.5 5.8    
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             


Last Updated on 10/16/98
By China Data Center